Depot Museum Exhibits
The Old Home
The way an Avon Park home kitchen looked in the early 1900s: an oak ice box, heavy stove irons, crocks, lace and early household gadgets.
“The Old Home” re-creates what an early family kitchen in Avon Park looked like before electrical appliances and modern plumbing changed the household.
A fine table setting. An early family table with fine china and fresh-baked breads and pies, on a hand-crocheted tablecloth beneath a cupboard of crockery.
Modern conveniences of the day. Household articles of the early days: heavy irons that were heated on the stove, early bread toasters, crocks, and a hand-pumped spray gun for the bugs.
Helpful gadgets galore. The specialized implements that made the early kitchen easier to manage: apple peelers, graters, egg beaters, kettles, and tin storage canisters.
Keeping things cool. An oak ice box kept the food cool before electric refrigerators arrived. A block from the ice wagon kept the upper shelves cold for days before it melted, beside a basket of fresh farm eggs.